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Pressure test
Check whether something you say you value still holds when no one is watching and there is no immediate reward.
Example
You say you value honesty. The pressure test asks: do you still say the awkward true thing when there is no audience and no one will praise you for it? If the honesty only shows up around people who applaud it, the value did not pass the test.
How it fits in
Lots of behaviour looks principled while it is being praised. Pressure testing asks whether you would still do it with nobody watching and nobody paying. The gap between what survives that test and what does not is one of the most useful pieces of self-knowledge in the curriculum, because the things that survive are the ones you can actually rely on under stress.
Where this is taught
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